434 Quotes About Womanhood

Like Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, I saw the effortless grace and elegance of the women around me and realized that “there was some skill involved in being a girl,” and I knew I didn’t just want to grow up and be a woman. I wanted to grow up and be a lady.

Why does a woman pretty herself and make herself presentable? Is it to show a hundred people...or a thousand? It's to show one person. She looks in the mirror to show only one person. She looks at her reflection in the spring for only one person.

It is a woman's prerogative to change her mind, after all.

Watching and learning from Mama and the other women in my family gave me a deep love for home and hearth and taking care of people. I knew from a young age that there was eternal value in those things.

Il pensiero le tornava sempre a un punto: che non c'era nessuno capace d'intendere, neanche lontanamente, tutto quello che lei intendeva, tutto quello che c'era in lei.

WOMAN’s COURAGEThat real person inside of you--will you tell her,that She is Queen of the hat paradefor all the rolesshe played?

The woman who appeals to a man`s vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

A woman can look both moral and exciting — if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.' quoted in Reader's Digest interview in 1954

Most religious scriptures are all about three apparently glorifying elements, -man, man and man.